Rather, it is the singular focus on international human rights intervention that is killing a once-vibrant local human rights movement in the country. The September 2015 resolution, adopted months after regime change in Sri Lanka, signalled a departure from the Council’s earlier antagonistic stand, with Sri Lanka itself co-sponsoring the resolution to address war-time accountability. This reality check begs the question: What has eight years of international human rights engagement really achieved? Furthermore, the rights of women, fisherfolk, workers, oppressed castes and the northern Muslims seldom figure in popular human rights narratives. The media in Sri Lanka dramatises the proceedings in Geneva, as if Sri Lanka is at the centre of the world.

Source: The Hindu March 28, 2017 18:32 UTC